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The Wikipedia page for him, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Guillon-Lethi%C3%A8re https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Guillon-Lethi%C3%A8r..., state
by hn_throwaway_99 2y ago
The Wikipedia page for him, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Guillon-Lethi%C3%A8re https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Guillon-Lethi%C3%A8r..., states that he was not born into slavery, but instead:
> He was born out of wedlock, to Marie-Françoise Dupepaye, a free person of color, and Pierre Guillon, a colonial Royal Notary.
The source for that sentence states his mother was "une esclave affranchie noire" - a freed black slave.
May seem like a small detail, and I'm not sure the Wikipedia page is correct, but I think it's worth correcting the reporting if it is.
- techaudible83 2y agoThe article does discuss this, and the main point to understand is that his mother was a slave and was then emancipated, meaning any children she had prior to emancipation were born into slavery. The article says that his father emancipated both his mother and him. It does not state that there is 100% definitive evidence of his status at birth but given his mother's status and the lack of baptismal records for his birth, it is very likely he was born a slave.
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